WOW air is increasing service to daily from BWI to Iceland

WOW air is increasing service from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall to Iceland, adding daily nonstop flights starting in June.

The discount carrier entered BWI in May with four weekly flights to Reykjavik, launching to much fanfare with tickets as low as $99 per way. Officials with WOW say the added flights are a result of strong demand.

In the last six months, WOW has also rolled out other transatlantic flights out of BWI at low fares. WOW air, for example, flies from BWI to Paris five times per week, and to Amsterdam twice a week with flights routed through Reykjavik. Connection times between flights are as low as 70 minutes, according to the airline.

“Our bookings to and from BWI have far exceeded what we anticipated,” Skúli Mogensen, WOW air’s founder and CEO, said in a statement.

Since WOW air’s launch from BWI last May, fares from the Baltimore-Washington area to Iceland have declined on average by 36 percent, according to the airline.